Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
MAXIM GORKYEverybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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Jail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
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When one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
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The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
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An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
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